Thread: Tipping Etiquette

I'm tired of tipping. It just adds to the costs and is a part of inflation.

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

I'm tired of tipping. It just adds to the costs and is a part of inflation.

Agreed. A total scam way for businesses to pass down operating costs to the customer.

Originally Posted by KentDog

Agreed. A total scam way for businesses to pass down operating costs to the customer.

I guess there are two sides to the coin (no pun).

Service will be better and perhaps fixed menu prices are lower as they are off-set by the 10-15% tip rule.

As you know we tip certain people and not others: we tip taxi drivers, bell boys, waitors/waitresses and hairstylists, but many others we don't.

Originally Posted by Big Smoothy

Service will be better and perhaps fixed menu prices are lower as they are off-set by the 10-15% tip rule.

As you know we tip certain people and not others: we tip taxi drivers, bell boys, waitors/waitresses and hairstylists, but many others we don't.

This is a good point. Initially I was thinking why can't the employer and not the customer provide financial incentives relating to performance? But then I realized it may be hard to measure individual performance in certain jobs. Even so, a job is a job. If you don't do your job well, you should get fired. A tip isn't what should motivate you to do well. In many countries, tipping is unheard of.

That being said, what do you usually tip for the above?!

Originally Posted by KentDog

That being said, what do you usually tip for the above?!

It's hard to say.

10% more or less.

The only services I use to tip are when I get a haircut and when eating at a restaurant. I eat out about 2 times a week, I'spose.

when my girlfriend took a holiday with her family to the US a while ago she said that if want the waiter/waitress/busboy etc to be polite you have to tip them or they will be a prick to you, because you are actually being the rude one. personally i don't agree with tipping but is suppose that its not part of our society here in Australia....

Here's a question maybe someone can answer.

We went to a restaurant as a group, I wasn't in the mood to go there nor was I hungry at all. All I wanted to do was to go to the movies.

I sat down with them, didn't eat. Finally we left...my friends all left a tip but I didn't because I didn't eat....anyway this stupid bitch calls her boss and makes a scene in the middle of the Village with hundreds of people saying I didn't pay.....I payed just to avoid further embarrassment.

Was I supposed to pay for just sitting down in a restaurant?

Originally Posted by KentDog

What's the general rule for tipping:
- At sit down restaurants?
- At buffets where someone will take your plate away and get you drinks?
- For haircuts?
- At bars?
- At hotels when someone carries/wheels your bags to your room for you?
- Delivery boys?

For me, I usually tip 15-20% at restaurants, a buck or two at buffets, $2-3 for haircuts (but I typically get my hair cut at barber colleges, at $8/haircut), and depending one the bar, $1/order (meaning if I order one drink, I'll tip $1; if I order three drinks at one time, I'll tip $1). However, I've been opening tabs at bars for the last year or so and just tip once at the end, and it's usually just a couple of bucks. I usually tip $2 at hotels and $2 for delivery boys. How do you guys usually tip?

I'm pretty much the same way. A couple of differences are at a buffer, $1 per person in the group (family of 4 = $4), haircuts ~20% (but we have one person who cuts all the family members, so gotta keep her happy!).

At a bar, it might be $1 for 1 or 2 drinks, but if I'm buying a round for 3 or more, it'll be more depending on the number of drinks.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

We went to a restaurant as a group, I wasn't in the mood to go there nor was I hungry at all. All I wanted to do was to go to the movies.

I sat down with them, didn't eat. Finally we left...my friends all left a tip but I didn't because I didn't eat....anyway this stupid bitch calls her boss and makes a scene in the middle of the Village with hundreds of people saying I didn't pay.....I payed just to avoid further embarrassment.

Was I supposed to pay for just sitting down in a restaurant?

I would have asked her what she did for me that warranted a tip. Put her on the spot in front of her boss and maybe she won't pull that stunt again.

Originally Posted by Triple Threat

I would have asked her what she did for me that warranted a tip. Put her on the spot in front of her boss and maybe she won't pull that stunt again.

I should have, but I was so embarrassed.

We don't generally tip here in Holland. Most/some people tip ~10% in good restaurants, hotels, pizza deliveries and such.

Hmmm around 15-20%... depending on the situation. However I will give less for shitty service.

Haircut costs 16... so I usually just give a 20.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Hmmm around 15-20%... depending on the situation. However I will give less for shitty service.

Haircut costs 16... so I usually just give a 20.

This is what I do. Sometimes I'll tip more of the service was impeccable, and I'll tip less, or even nothing, if the service is bad enough.

I've found that people who don't tip, tend to be assholes.

Originally Posted by barbell boy

when my girlfriend took a holiday with her family to the US a while ago she said that if want the waiter/waitress/busboy etc to be polite you have to tip them or they will be a prick to you, because you are actually being the rude one. personally i don't agree with tipping but is suppose that its not part of our society here in Australia....

When I was in Sydney I'd leave a usual tip at restaurants and bars and no one seemed to be puzzled by it so some people must be tipping over there. Maybe everyone else does tip and you don't know about it so everytime you go into a place they say "Hey there's that non-tipping asshole tell the cook to spit in his food..."

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Was I supposed to pay for just sitting down in a restaurant?

No. Had she known you hadn't ordered anything?

Originally Posted by maniclion

Maybe everyone else does tip and you don't know about it so everytime you go into a place they say "Hey there's that non-tipping asshole tell the cook to spit in his food..."

lol

20%

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Here's a question maybe someone can answer.

We went to a restaurant as a group, I wasn't in the mood to go there nor was I hungry at all. All I wanted to do was to go to the movies.

I sat down with them, didn't eat. Finally we left...my friends all left a tip but I didn't because I didn't eat....anyway this stupid bitch calls her boss and makes a scene in the middle of the Village with hundreds of people saying I didn't pay.....I payed just to avoid further embarrassment.

Was I supposed to pay for just sitting down in a restaurant?

I don't understand the context of this story. You were sitting at a restaurant and didn't order anything, and someone said you didn't pay? When you were leaving? Did she hand you a receipt with some dollar amount on it? Was there a balance left on your friends bill that they didn't cover? I guess I am just missing something.

If someone did that to me the way you are describing it, I would have said "pay for fucking what, the oxygen? You didn't bring me anything you crazy bitch."

haircut: 5USD no matter the price (usually around 20 though)
meals: 15% for solid service 20% food great service
buffets: nothing...its the Old Country Buffet for Christ sake...LOL
Delivery: 2-4USD
Bars: 1USD per drink at most bars/pubs. Nice places I usually tip 5USD a drink...and really really busy places, I tip 20USD on the first drink so the bartenders remembers me and get served quicker and move to 1USD tips per drink for the rest of the night.

hotels: Completely depends on the status of the hotel...Most US 5stars its pretty much a standard to tip 20USD...for bellhops, room service, housekeeping etc. Overseas its a whole different ballgame...many countries don't tip at all and when you do (even it its only 20USD) you treated like a diplomat. I tipped a housekeeper 50USD (room was trashed after having some friends over after a night of drinking) in the middle east and she did my laundry for free with out me even asking. She even ironed my tshirts and put them in vacuum packed plastic wraps...LOL

I tip $2.00 at the china buffet, $1.00 to the waitress and $1.00 to the sushi man just because my friend I I feel he works as hard as the server.

I tip $5.00 on a $10.00 meal. I worked in restaurants for years, and I know how shitty their job is. I tip bartenders somewhere around 10%. I tip piercers and tattoo artist about $20.00-$30.00 depending on the cost of the piercing or tattoo.

You guys are some stingy bastards. You remind me of Mr. Pink, haha.

^lol, I think Mr. Pink makes a good argument.

At the bars I usually tip 1-2 dollars a drink.

For a while I never even knew people tipped barbers. I remember once I was charged 18$ and she asked, "do you want change?". I was like, yes, hell yeah I want change.

At a restaurant it depends largely on the place I am at, the service and how I feel that day. I usually tip pretty well when things are good, ~25%. I don't go out to eat that often.

A friend of mine tips ridiculously...he tipped a waitress 20$ for a 15$ meal. She wasn't anything special service wise either. He tips the deliverly man 10$ sometimes.

Originally Posted by clemson357

I don't understand the context of this story. You were sitting at a restaurant and didn't order anything, and someone said you didn't pay? When you were leaving? Did she hand you a receipt with some dollar amount on it? Was there a balance left on your friends bill that they didn't cover? I guess I am just missing something.

If someone did that to me the way you are describing it, I would have said "pay for fucking what, the oxygen? You didn't bring me anything you crazy bitch."

No receipt at all, I was to embarrassed to react properly....I didn't want a bigger scene.

idk about everything else but for the barber its 8 bucks for a haircut/shapeup and 3-4 bucks for a design so that costs 12 dollars and then i give him like 3 dollars tip

20%.

I wrote a whole big thing on tips but i didn't want to post it up. Instead i'll say this. People depend on tips, you may not like it but that is how the system is set up. If you can't afford atleast a decent tip you shouldn't be doing whatever it is your doing, whether eating out, getting an expensive haircut or drinking in a high end bar.

I'm a big tipper and get mad when people don't tip well when we're eating out or whatever. I've actually had a fight with my father about this. I work a tip job and need that money to get through school. It sucks working all night and leaving with 30 bucks in your pocket because people are cheap shits. My tips are as follows...these are the lowest figures i would tip unless the service is downright terrible at which point i just won't tip period.

eat out-20-25%
bar-1 dollar for shot/beer/easy mix drink (ie jack/coke or vodka/whatever)
2-3 dollars for PITA drinks like mojitos and caipirinha's.
Also if i'm buying a round and the guy/girl has to make me 5 different drinks i'll tip them well.
haircut-i leave the 20, my haircut used to cost 12 but i think my guy is up to 15 now, i still leave twenty but will start throwing something extra when i have more money
valet-i don't, but if i'm forced i drop a 20 and get a front spot and keep my keys.
delivery-3-5 bucks but the guy only really has to walk over 2 blocks to bring my stuff, if i get a ton of food i'll put some more in or if i'm far away from the place.

15% on lunch
20% on dinner
3 bucks on a 12 dollar haircut so 25%
Bar is usually a dollar per set of drinks (1 or 2)
I don't do delivery. Diet ftw.

Originally Posted by Yanick

I wrote a whole big thing on tips but i didn't want to post it up. Instead i'll say this. People depend on tips, you may not like it but that is how the system is set up. If you can't afford atleast a decent tip you shouldn't be doing whatever it is your doing, whether eating out, getting an expensive haircut or drinking in a high end bar.

I'm a big tipper and get mad when people don't tip well when we're eating out or whatever. I've actually had a fight with my father about this. I work a tip job and need that money to get through school. It sucks working all night and leaving with 30 bucks in your pocket because people are cheap shits. My tips are as follows...these are the lowest figures i would tip unless the service is downright terrible at which point i just won't tip period.

eat out-20-25%
bar-1 dollar for shot/beer/easy mix drink (ie jack/coke or vodka/whatever)
2-3 dollars for PITA drinks like mojitos and caipirinha's.
Also if i'm buying a round and the guy/girl has to make me 5 different drinks i'll tip them well.
haircut-i leave the 20, my haircut used to cost 12 but i think my guy is up to 15 now, i still leave twenty but will start throwing something extra when i have more money
valet-i don't, but if i'm forced i drop a 20 and get a front spot and keep my keys.
delivery-3-5 bucks but the guy only really has to walk over 2 blocks to bring my stuff, if i get a ton of food i'll put some more in or if i'm far away from the place.

I never worked at tip job but I believe in tipping well. Waitresses and hairdressers are usually women. I bet 80% of them have kids. I look at it like that. I can spare a couple extra bucks to help them.

Originally Posted by danzik17

15% on lunch
20% on dinner
3 bucks on a 12 dollar haircut so 25%
Bar is usually a dollar per set of drinks (1 or 2)
I don't do delivery. Diet ftw.

is dat really 25% i give a 3 dollar tip on a 12 dollar haircut 2.